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   FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jun-2023 18:35:47 JST FediTips has moved!

   Apparently Reddit has now banned a subreddit dedicated to the Fediverse Reddit-alternative Kbin:

   https://sakurajima.moe/@chikorita157/110517156242412322

   If you're on a centralised platform like Reddit, this is what they can do. Centralised platforms have all-powerful leaders who can do whatever they want, and you have no alternatives if you disagree.

   The point of the Fediverse being on lots of servers is that each server's power is limited. If you disagree with one server's actions, you can move.

   #Fediverse #Reddit #Kbin

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     TheDude (thedude@rva.fyi)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jun-2023 18:58:52 JST TheDude

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     @feditips I don’t think fediverse is going to enter the general vocabulary.

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     Yeekasoose (yeekasoose@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jun-2023 19:01:07 JST Yeekasoose

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     @feditips what an admirable bastion of free speech

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jun-2023 19:14:41 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • Kathrin

     @Kathrin

     Yes! People who enjoy the article should follow the author at @pluralistic

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     Neilh90 (neilh90@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jun-2023 19:14:47 JST Neilh90

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     @feditips they're absolutely shameless

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     Kathrin (kathrin@trouth.eu)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jun-2023 19:15:19 JST Kathrin

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     @feditips

     This is a long read, but it very succinctly explains why these things inevitably always will happen on centralized systems:

     https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jun-2023 19:55:31 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • Lazycog
     • aleklu

     @aleklu @Lazycog

     Also, the long form posts on Reddit mean it's a lot more dependent on creators.

     There are sometimes really good deep dive posts on Reddit in a way that have never existed on Twitter, due to the different posting format.

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     aleklu (aleklu@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jun-2023 19:55:34 JST aleklu

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     • Lazycog

     @Lazycog @feditips

     Add to that that this content follows the old 90% lurker, 9% interacter and 1% creator rule of thumb.

     I would not be surprised if the Venn diagram between creators and people who use 3rd party apps approaches a circle.

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     Lazycog (lazycog@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jun-2023 19:55:35 JST Lazycog

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     @feditips I went and overwrote every question and answer I had on my over 5 year old account on reddit and then deleted my account in a protest after the AMA.

     As many people have pointed out, reddit's value comes from its userbase who contribute on the website. Many people like me often google with "reddit" as a prefix to find answers to questions.

     So glad r/RedditAlternatives pointed me towards fediverse!

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jun-2023 21:25:23 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • SocialSpirit :mastodon:

     @SocialSpirit

     If you want to sign up on another server, you need to create an account on that server.

     Your Mastodon account is tied to the Mastodon server where you signed up, you can't use it to sign in on any other server.

     It's like with email, you can't use your Gmail account to sign in on Yahoo Mail, even though you can send emails between Gmail and Yahoo Mail accounts.

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     SocialSpirit :mastodon: (socialspirit@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jun-2023 21:25:24 JST SocialSpirit :mastodon:

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     @feditips sorry for a really dumb question on Kban…how do I sign up with my mastodon user name? What’s the proper format? I keep getting a “match format” message. I’m not sure why I’m struggling with. Mastodon was a breeze compared to this. 😔

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     SocialSpirit :mastodon: (socialspirit@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jun-2023 21:35:00 JST SocialSpirit :mastodon:

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     @feditips ok, I think I understand that, but when I look at users on kban it displays their other instance info as well (eg: FEDITIPS @feditips@mastodon.social). I’ve just created a kban account displaying USERNAME @username@kban.social which isn’t what I want. Does that make sense or am I totally missing something. Thanks for your patience, I don’t know why I don’t get this.

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jun-2023 21:35:00 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • SocialSpirit :mastodon:

     @SocialSpirit

     The users you can see with other instance info are on other instances. They may not be on Kban at all, or they might be on different Kban servers.

     The idea of the Fediverse is people are spread out on thousands of different servers, but the servers communicate seamlessly so that people from many different servers can have conversations together.

     You and I are on different servers but we are able to talk like this, because the servers we signed up on communicate with each other.

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     otheorange_tag (otheorange_tag@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 00:07:27 JST otheorange_tag

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     @feditips Wasn't there some reddit api thingy that is going to close because of cost? Can't they also use this free replacement? If we had a search that was general I could connect them up in a few seconds, but I know it is lost way too far in my TL to ever find ☹️

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 02:35:59 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • Evie (SleepyCatten)
     • Sibachian

     @Beiz @SleepyCatten

     Kbin is very new, give it a bit of time.

     The reason I'd recommend Kbin instead of Lemmy is that Lemmy's lead developer seems to have... um... problematic behaviour...

     https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379

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     Sibachian (beiz@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 02:36:01 JST Sibachian

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     • Evie (SleepyCatten)

     @SleepyCatten @feditips why is kbin more viable than lemmy? i checked kbim just now and at first glance it's both slower and has a less polished interface.

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     Evie (SleepyCatten) (sleepycatten@cultofshiv.wtf)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 02:36:02 JST Evie (SleepyCatten)

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     @feditips Thanks for making me aware of Kbin :PinkHeart: I was only previously aware of Lemmy, which (as you've covered yourself) is not really a viable option.

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 02:44:19 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • 🏳️‍🌈🎃🇧🇷Luana🇧🇷🎃🏳️‍🌈 :verified:
     • bee

     @luana @Bees

     The admin of Kbin posted today that they're giving priority to documenting how to set up Kbin servers, to speed up the process of more servers being set up.

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     🏳️‍🌈🎃🇧🇷Luana🇧🇷🎃🏳️‍🌈 :verified: (luana@tech.lgbt)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 02:44:21 JST 🏳️‍🌈🎃🇧🇷Luana🇧🇷🎃🏳️‍🌈 :verified:

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     • bee

     @Bees @feditips karab.in seems to be polish too?

     Also nah, I don’t even self-host my mastodon account lmaoo

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     bee (bees@tech.lgbt)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 02:44:27 JST bee

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     • 🏳️‍🌈🎃🇧🇷Luana🇧🇷🎃🏳️‍🌈 :verified:

     @luana @feditips Karab.in is the only other english one I know of. There are a handful of polish instances (AFAIK the kbin dev is polish).

     But if you have the knowledge and resources you should totally host your own kbin instance!

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     🏳️‍🌈🎃🇧🇷Luana🇧🇷🎃🏳️‍🌈 :verified: (luana@tech.lgbt)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 02:44:28 JST 🏳️‍🌈🎃🇧🇷Luana🇧🇷🎃🏳️‍🌈 :verified:

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     @feditips What #kbin instances are there out there?

     Kbin dot social is super full rn, and using the main instance isn’t usually good anyway

     (Also, any kbin apps for iOS?)

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     Kᑐᑌᑐᕮ (kdude@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 03:17:08 JST Kᑐᑌᑐᕮ

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     @feditips I’m confused 😊 are there any iOS clients i can browse/use for Kbin?

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 03:17:08 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • Kᑐᑌᑐᕮ

     @Kdude

     They haven't done an app yet, but it works through the web. More info at https://kbin.pub

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 03:21:03 JST FediTips has moved!

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     p.s. Have had lot of people asking similar questions, so here are some answers:

     Kbin's website is at https://kbin.pub, they have a flagship server at https://kbin.social

     There's no app yet, but you can use Kbin servers through their websites.

     The lead developer of Kbin is @ernest, at the moment that's the account to follow for news on the project.

     If you want to help Kbin there's a donation link at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kbin

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     Stemy (stemy@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 03:46:00 JST Stemy

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     @feditips @ernest Note, however, that the flagship instance uses cloudflare, very bad for privacy.

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     Alastair Cooper (alastair87@social.weyr.org.uk)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 04:44:26 JST Alastair Cooper

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     • Come On Giant Asteroid!
     @me @VE2UWY That instance can however just refuse to federate with others and if it gets to critical mass it will be difficult to escape. In a sense that's not too dissimilar to how Big Tech social media operates now by restricting interoperability and limiting what you can do with the APIs.
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     me (me@social.jlamothe.net)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 04:44:27 JST me

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     • Come On Giant Asteroid!

     @VE2UWY Yes, but the difference is that you don't have to sign up with that instance to engage with its users. Likewise, you can migrate to another instance if you disagree with the policies of your current one.

     It's not a bulletproof system, but it's far more resistant to that kind of nonsense.

     Edit: typo

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     Come On Giant Asteroid! (ve2uwy@mastodon.radio)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 04:44:28 JST Come On Giant Asteroid!

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     @feditips

     "have all-powerful leaders" ... OK, well, in some sense yes. What they have is owners & no matter how benevolent when the platform starts, eventually the Money People arrive & then everything becomes about "shareholder value". If extracting every last quantum of value from the company kills it ... well "free market" & off they go to do the same at the next place.

     AFAIK (and may be wrong!) there is no prohibition against for-profit Mastodon instances. Same could happen at one.

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 04:44:51 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • Stemy
     • pieceofthepie :coffefied:

     @pieceofthepie @stemy @ernest

     Yeah, can confirm they didn't have Cloudflare earlier in the day.

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     pieceofthepie :coffefied: (pieceofthepie@social.n8e.dev)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 04:44:57 JST pieceofthepie :coffefied:

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     • Stemy

     @stemy @feditips @ernest Not normally. That was temporally implemented a few hours back to mitigate what looked like a DDoS.

     In retrospect it may have just been the HN/Digg/Slashdot/Reddit effect but until that eases of it is making the site usable.

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     The Steel Rat (thesteelrat@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 05:16:17 JST The Steel Rat

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     @feditips

     Sounds like a good idea, until your server is targeted by defederation from multiple popular and well used servers

     #Fediverse #Reddit #Kbin

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 06:54:09 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • Chloe Princess Of Cute

     @theprincessofcute

     It's still really, really new, as far as I know they haven't added direct account transfers yet.

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     Chloe Princess Of Cute (theprincessofcute@chaosfem.tw)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 06:54:10 JST Chloe Princess Of Cute

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     @feditips I started trying out Kbin yesterday. I'm liking what I'm seeing so far, I'm just hoping more instances get set up soon. I'm on kbin.social and it's struggling due to all the new users. I'm pretty techy but not quite enough to set up my own instance unfortunately. Do you know if it's easy to switch instances on kbin like you can on mastodon? Or do you have to set up a new account if you want to switch kbin instances?

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 16:25:26 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • SocialSpirit :mastodon:
     • Coo-Ops

     @cooopsspace @SocialSpirit

     You don't need an account on every service.

     One account will usually let you interact on other services. From your point of view it will look like you're just on Mastodon, but you're actually on other services too.

     For example, if you want to comment on a PeerTube video, you can do that from Mastodon. From your point of view it will look like a Mastodon thread, but when you go to the PeerTube video's own page the comment you made on Mastodon will be there.

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     Coo-Ops (cooopsspace@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 16:25:27 JST Coo-Ops

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     • SocialSpirit :mastodon:

     @feditips @SocialSpirit the bit that's always stumped me is why I've got to have one profile per fedi app rather than a single unified profile. That's the part that isn't seamless.

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 16:27:33 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • SocialSpirit :mastodon:
     • Coo-Ops

     @cooopsspace @SocialSpirit

     For example if you go to @theatticdwellers you'll see PeerTube posts, even though they look like Mastodon posts. If you like them on Mastodon, it will appear as a thumbs up on PeerTube. If you reply to one of those videos, it will appear as a comment on PeerTube.

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     Ian Molton (spyro@social.weyr.org.uk)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 06:26:22 JST Ian Molton

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     @feditips It was apparently re-instated. Similar is supposed to have happened with Lemmy...
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     Carlos Solís (csolisr@social.azkware.net)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jun-2023 15:54:22 JST Carlos Solís

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     • 🏳️‍🌈🎃🇧🇷Luana🇧🇷🎃🏳️‍🌈 :verified:
     • don Elías (como los buses) 🥨
     • bee

     @donelias @feditips @Bees @luana I’m currently working to make the installation work with @yunohost to make things more smooth, but I’m still learning the scripting system

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     don Elías (como los buses) 🥨 (donelias@mastodon.cr)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jun-2023 15:54:25 JST don Elías (como los buses) 🥨

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     • 🏳️‍🌈🎃🇧🇷Luana🇧🇷🎃🏳️‍🌈 :verified:
     • Carlos Solís
     • bee

     @csolisr

     You asked and we delivered :-)

     A #Kbin instance for Costa Rica and beyond.

     It's just installed and it has some rough edges as the installation instructions are are work in progress.

     @feditips @Bees @luana

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     Carlos Solís (csolisr@social.azkware.net)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jun-2023 15:54:26 JST Carlos Solís

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     • 🏳️‍🌈🎃🇧🇷Luana🇧🇷🎃🏳️‍🌈 :verified:
     • don Elías (como los buses) 🥨
     • bee
     @feditips @luana @Bees
     
     I'm already pinging @donelias to see if he can also host a #Kbin instance for Costa Rica